<div dir="ltr">Hi Yoram,<br><br>First of all, is there a culmus-discuss list? I think there should be, as the kind of comments that I'm sending here should probably be discussed in the open. Meanwhile I'm CC:ing linux-il in lack of a better place.<br>
<br>I had a look again at the Shmuel font, which I really like! But I found, what I think are small inconsistancies that may be seen in the following image:<br><br><img title="shmuel-font-tails.png" alt="shmuel-font-tails.png" src="cid:ii_12bc866112819567"><br>
<br>The "serif" look different for different characters. There are more characters with more or less the same serif, e.g. ג. I looked at Shmuel Katz writing and I got the impression that he did not make this distinction. Of course there are differences between each time you manually draw a character, but I don't see the distinction between the different characters. <br>
<br>Another issue is the lack of serif on צ. Appearently Shmuel Katz wasn't consistant there. Look e.g. at the 6th line of:<br><br><a href="http://www.zchor.org/pesach/picspesach/hagadda22.jpg">http://www.zchor.org/pesach/picspesach/hagadda22.jpg</a><br>
<br>which does have a serif.<br><br>Personally I prefer the font with more of a triangle than a tail, but I agree that is not the way that Shmuel Katz wrote.<br><br>Another issue is the Teamim fonts. I'm working on a siddur for the Nokia N900 and currently I'm using FrankRuehl CLM with my added logics for nikkud. I was very interested to test your Teamey FrankRuehl font, but unfortunately I felt it was much too spaced for my view. The large spacing between characters and the nikud and the teamim might be good for clarity, but I personally prefer the more traditional cramped version and returned to my font. For small spacing you have to make much more efforts to avoid collisions, but I think it is possible using complex multicharacter OpenType GPOS rules.<br>
<br>Thanks again for your great work!<br>Dov<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 21:38, Yoram Gnat <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yoramg@shenkar.ac.il">yoramg@shenkar.ac.il</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hi All,<br>
A new font, "Shmuel CLM" joins the Fancy font family which now contains 11 fonts of different shapes.<br>
I designed the font in memory of Shmuel Katz (August 18, 1926 - March 26, 2010), the Israeli artist, ilustrator and cartoonist. The font is inspired by the letter forms of his hand drawn <a href="http://www.zchor.org/pesach/pesach.html" target="_blank">"Passover Hagadah" for the Kibutzim</a>. <br>
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"Shmuel CLM" is available on the <a href="http://culmus.sourceforge.net/fancy/index.html" target="_blank">fancy fonts page</a> of Culmus project both as fontforge SFD source file and as truetype file. It fully supports Hebrew niqud (vowel marks, shin dots, dagesh, rafe and meteg) positioning. Cantillation marks (Teamim) were made transparent, thus text including them should still be displayed with proper positioning of the niqud.<br>
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Regards<br>
Yoram Gnat. <br>
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